Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Irony of Truth
Nov 02, 2012
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As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, my publisher and I recently talked for over an hour about whether I should make some last minute changes in my upcoming novel, Trompe l’Oeil. She was concerned about the book’s complexity and whether or not I should give the reader more clues.
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The Truth About the Fiction of Modern Women
Nov 01, 2012
Recently, my publisher and I had a discussion about Rachel Farraday, the heroine of my upcoming novel, Trompe l’Oeil. She wondered if my character needed to be more assertive to satisfy the modern view of women. Where, she wondered, was the grittiness of Victorine Ellsworth, the sch
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Why Does an Atheist Need Ritual?
Oct 31, 2012
A friend sent me a book review from the Wall Street Journal the other day. It was for a new book by Alain de Botton with the jaw breaking title, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion. Botton’s argument is that atheists should consider appropriating
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Why the World Exists, According to Syllogisms
Oct 30, 2012
I received a package in the mail yesterday. I wasn’t expecting anything, so I put my ear to it to listen for ticking sounds. Hearing none, I tore the wrapping and discovered a friend had sent me a book I’d wanted to read for some time: Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt. Holt w
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You Know Your Way Home
Oct 29, 2012
Several times I’ve gloated about finding a wonderful book for a $1, but the other day I received one for free. I met the author, Suzanne Jauchius, at a small gathering of writers where she introduced herself as a psychic. Her book, You Know Your Way Home, is memoir about the challen
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The “Onion” and Other Ironies
Oct 26, 2012
To write that language is a tool by which we either clarify or dissemble is almost too obvious to proclaim. Still, to confuse one purpose with the other can produce high comedy. Recently the news wires carried a story about a poll printed in the Onion showing that Iran’s president,
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The Miracle of Possibility
Oct 25, 2012
Karen King, a historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School stirred up a hornet’s nest a few weeks ago when she announced she’d discovered a 2nd century papyrus which contained a reference to “Jesus’ wife.” The tiny fragment is barely legible and incomplete so K
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The Swan Thieves – Elizabeth Kostova’s unrecognized masterpiece
Oct 24, 2012
I’ve just finished Elizabeth Kostova’s The Swan Thieves, a book I first mentioned in my blog of 9/28/12. I wrote at the time that the novel had failed to receive the acclaim of her first work, The Historian, but that that knowledge hadn’t dissuaded me from buying it. I’m gla
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Narcissism – The New Norm in Our Race to the Bottom
Oct 23, 2012
I’ve mentioned before that Bernard Berenson, American art historian (1865-1959) bemoaned that our culture in the 20th century was galloping toward rampant mediocrity. Given that harsh assessment, I wonder what he would say about the 21st. I suspect he would concur with the opinion o
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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